Wings
of Fire: An Autobiography
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul
Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had
an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest
civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna. As chief of the country's defence
research and development programme, Kalam demonstrated the great potential for
dynamism and innovation that existed in seemingly moribund research
establishments. This is the story of Kalam's rise from obscurity and his
personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of Agni, Prithvi,
Akash, Trishul and Nag-missiles that have become household names in India and
that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international
reckoning. This is also the saga of independent India's struggle for
technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about
politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.
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